Artificial intelligence could be used to generate content intended to manipulate people. Addressing this problem means understanding how communication works to influence people.
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How to know if your computers are infected for use in a distributed denial of service attack.
AI is already on the payroll in many workplaces – how well human employees interact with it can depend a lot on their existing attitudes and anxieties.
Elon Musk’s focus on the number of bots on Twitter, whether genuine or a distraction, does little to address the problems of misinformation and spam. A pair of social media experts explain why.
Elon Musk has an idea of what ails Twitter and what needs to be done to fix it. The problem is his assumptions are wrong.
Twitter, more than other social media platforms, fosters real-time discussion about events as they unfold. That could change now that Musk has gained control of the company.
Twitter, more than other social media platforms, fosters real-time discussion about events as they unfold. That could change if Musk gains control of the company.
The system behind apps like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and WhatsApp isn’t neutral. It encodes political communication, influencing what users see.
Disinformation is being privatized around the world. This new industry is built on a dangerous combination of cheap labor, high-tech algorithms and emotional national narratives.
Any time a political bot, or indeed any type of AI in politics, is employed, we need information about how it was created and tested.
Virtual assistants and robots are frequently given female attributes. To curb the massive use of such gendering in AI, we need to better understand the deep roots of this phenomenon.
A social media researcher explains how bots and sock puppet accounts manipulate and polarize public debate.
Unlike the US, Australia hasn’t yet been hit by a large-scale disinformation campaign focussed on meddling with elections. But this is a ‘realistic prospect’ moving forward.
According to Bot Sentinel, #coronavirus and #COVID19 are among the top hashtags being used by Twitter bot accounts.
Facebook, Google and Twitter are stepping up to block misinformation and promote accurate information about the coronavirus. Their track records on self-policing are poor. The results so far are mixed.
Personal data is valued primarily because data can be turned into a private asset. That has significant implications for political and societal choices.
Anti-vaccine info online might have foreign roots and political aims.
Claims that tweets on the Canadian election are the work of bot accounts, without empirical evidence or verification, need to be taken with a grain of salt.
On the back of the Mueller investigation’s apparent exoneration of the POTUS, here’s another surprise.
Measuring Twitter bots’ effects on the opinions of real people can yield surprising results about what makes them influential.
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Professor of Information Systems, Michigan State University
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Senior Lecturer in Criminology, Deakin University
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Senior Lecturer in Media and Communications, Swinburne University of Technology
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Associate Professor in Digital Media, Western Sydney University
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Head, The Cyber Academy, Edinburgh Napier University
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Professor, Queensland University of Technology
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Professor, School of Sociology; Geary Fellow, Geary Institute for Public Policy, University College Dublin
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Dean of Global Business, The Fletcher School, Tufts University
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Senior lecturer, Department of Computer Science, City, University of London
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Professor of Law, Villanova School of Law
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Associate Professor, Science and Technology Studies, York University, Canada
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Former Professor of Management and Business History
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Professor of Informatics and Computer Science, Indiana University
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Assistant Professor of Computer Science, West Virginia University
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Ontario Research Chair of Digital Governance for Social Justice, York University, Canada
